Environmental issues center of Inland Northwest Research Alliance 4th Annual Symposium
...ed the importance of science and how it relates to politics within the Pacific Northwest and the U.S., during the opening session of the fourth annual Inland Northwest Research Alliance Environmental and Subsurface Science Symposium in Spokane, WA. "We understand the issues and what needs to be done, even i......gebrush ecosystem," will take a closer look at the politics behind management and recovery issues surrounding the sagebrush ecosystem. Closing the session, Joel Brown, Brandon Bestelmeyer, and Jeffrey Herrick (Jornada Experimental Range) will argue that institutional guidelines for management are inade...Scientists issue statement on scientific peer review
... Scientific peer review should be insulated from politics as much as possible. Even the best scientific peer review cannot give policy makers the 'right' answer. Scientific peer review must maintain programmatic flexibility. All scientific peer review must be based upon an assumption of integrit...Lion attacks on livestock in Africa are significant but manageable
...be effective, conservation solutions must involve politics and economics, as well as biology," he added. Just published online in the journal Biological Conservation, the study concludes that only $8,749 would be needed annually to offset the economic damage of a vigorous population of 26 adult lions inhabi...Sarah Staples and Daniel Grossman win 2004 AIBS media awards
...ington, DC, covering research discoveries and the politics of science. His beats include the White House science advisor's office, Congress, and several military and civilian science agencies. He also writes about patent law, marine biology, and ecological issues. A former freelance journalist, he has writte......bourne.Gabriele Brandstetter read German, history, politics and theatre studies at Erlangen, Regensburg, Vienna and Munich and completed her studies at the University of Munich in 1983 with a thesis on the lyric poetry of Clemens Brentano. She subsequently taught and researched at the University of Bayreuth u...Six reporters reach the 'pinnacle of excellence'
...waves to life, and an article that illustrates how politics can derail scientific research, are among the entries named to win the 2003 AAAS Science Journalism Awards. Sponsored by The Whitaker Foundation, the AAAS Science Journalism Awards program, informally known as the "AAAS pinnacle of excellence prize,"...Briefing to address what women don't know about lung cancer
...rrent status of diagnosis, treatment, research and politics of lung cancer. The briefing includes presentations from an expert panel. A question and answer session will follow. When: 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, November 13, 2003 Where: Dirksen Senate Office Building Room G-11 Washington, DC 20510...College is first to be Kyoto Protocol compliant
... "The students engaged the science, economics and politics of global warming. Kyoto Protocol compliance through offset purchases appears to be quite affordable. The example of Lewis & Clark College indicates that colleges and universities are the perfect laboratory in which to examine the larger implication...Nation on the verge of 'new era in modern river management'
...etown University Press, 2003), noted environmental politics expert William R. Lowry explores the dynamics behi...amework for understanding how rivers interact with politics and public policies, showing, for instance, that the success or failure of a restoration efforts oft...Sarah Billington and Alexandria Boehm named Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professors
...y and month. She also researches the economics and politics of coastal water quality, and recently coauthored a study on controversial beach closings in Southern California....NIH leader outlines future of U.S. medical research
...e polarizing. "But he adds that, "Disease knows no politics NIH must serve all of us...it must not be factional, but must remain factual." "Science is evolving at such a pace that cross-cutting initiatives need to be encouraged," he continued. He said he would work to enhance interactions among scientists, i...What to plant when the fires go out
...he "peculiar way that American society has evolved politics and practices to cope with fire's threats and utility." "The United States does not have a fire problem," Pyne says, "It has many fire problems. The core concern, however, resides in the West, where extensive public lands overlay a naturally fire-pr...Science's top ten: Discovery of genes' 'control switches' named top advance of 2002
...gulation, and smallpox vaccination were stalled by politics and technical debate. The flip side of Science's Top Ten is its Breakdowns of the Year , spotlighting scientific misconduct in 2002. Separate investigations concluded that Hendrik Schn, a physicist at Bell Laboratories, and Victor Ninov, a physici...Alzheimer's, nutrition, smallpox, and other 'Human Health Frontiers' addressed by AAAS speakers
...oved. "I am very troubled because of the impact of politics on science," Gearhart said."Our hope is that the rigor of science will show us all the right way to go." As foreign countries play an increasing role in stem cell research, it is difficult to evaluate results of studies that do not adhere to U.S. sta...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...r waste. Sound science should take precedence over politics and program requirements when making the decision whether to place a repository at Yucca Mountain. To view the abstracts for these articles, go to: http://www.gsajournals.org . To obtain a complimentary copy of any GEOLOGY article, contact Ann Cairn......n and his colleagues. To help shift the focus from politics to ecology, 35 jaguar experts from12 countries were brought together by the Wildlife Conservation Societyand the Institute of Ecology at the National Autonomous University ofMexico. The experts conducted a range-wide assessment of the jaguar'slong-te...Virginia Tech leads global effort to sort out social, economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology
...ernational political economy, and the study of the politics and economics of technology transfer and diffusion." Much of agricultural biotechnology that has been marketed to date has been aimed at enhancing productivity. But increasingly, biotechnology is being applied to add to the value of crops, such as by...Prominent UCSD, Salk reseachers to discuss politics and science of embryonic stem cell research
...r research with human embryonic stem cells and the politics and science that surrounds it will be discussed by UCSD and Salk Institute researchers at a free lecture for the public Oct. 19 on the UCSD campus in La Jolla. Titled Stem Cell Research: Where Science Meets Politics and Ethics, the lecture is schedu...College Station The science, economics and politics of global warming will be the focus of a Texas A&M University conference Friday (April 6) aimed at providing policy makers with an objective, non-technical analysis of the present and future implications of climate change. Featured speakers are ...